Judges go deep three times, but it's not enough at Worcester State, 12-4

Apr 13, 2010

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Brandeis baseball team hit a
season-high three home runs today, but it wasn’t enough to
rally the Judges past the home-standing Worcester State College
Lancers in a 12-4 defeat. The Judges fall to 8-17, while WSC
improves to 17-5-1 on the season.

After Brandeis starter Dylan Britton
(Poughquag, N.Y./Arlington) got out of a bases-loaded jam in the
second, Worcester State struck for two unearned runs in the third,
thanks to a lead-off error. The Lancers scored on a sacrifice fly
by SS Tyler Magnell and a single by DH Corey McDonald.

The Judges got one run back in the fourth inning, when rookie LF
Chris Ferro (Walpole, Mass./Walpole) bashed his
team-leading fourth home run of the season to left-center field.
Unfortunately for the Judges, the Lancers answered in a big way in
the bottom of the fourth, scoring seven runs off of three Brandeis
pitchers. The big blows were a pair of three-run home runs, one by
McDonald and one by 2B Paul Rodriguez. It was the third of the
season for both players.

After the hosts tacked on three more runs in the bottom of the
seventh, the Judges knocked their last two homers. In the top of
the eighth, junior Tony Deshler (Pepperell,
Mass./Lawrence Acad.) stroked the first pitch of the frame out to
right-center. It was Deshler’s first of the campaign and the
seventh of his career. In the ninth, junior Eric
Rosenberg (Oakland, N.J./Indian Hills) launched the third
of his career, a two-run job to left to close out the scoring.

With tomorrow’s game against Suffolk cancelled, Brandeis
is back in action Thursday at Johnson & Wales.